Re: [tlug] Trouble with external USB hard disk: drive order; hard and optical drive names

[David Bernat <dbernat@example.com>]

jep200404 wrote:

> Neither sdb1 nor sdc smell right for a DVD drive. 
>
> How did you determine that either sdb1 or sdc were for the 
> DVD-RAM drive? 

KDE disk filesystems shows the drive information.

> > I have no /dev/scd0 in my system. 
>
> How did you determine that? 
>
> What is the output of: 
>
>    ls -l /dev/scd*
>    ls -ld /sys/block/s*

david@example.com:~$ ls -l /dev/scd*
brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 2008-10-22 08:51 /dev/scd0

david@example.com:~$ ls -ld /sys/block/s*
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 0 2008-10-22 10:57 /sys/block/sda
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 0 2008-10-22 10:57 /sys/block/sr0

> By the way, using DVD-RAM is uncommon. 
> Are you actually using DVD-RAM, or is this a DVD+/-RW drive 
> that can also handle DVD-RAM media 
> (but does not have DVD-RAM media)? 

DVD Multi drive.